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TheOtherDave comments on Rationality, competitiveness and akrasia - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 October 2013 04:12:50PM 1 point [-]

Every time my employer does some form of numeric feedback, I ask for essentially this. (I usually phrase it as "so, is that in the top 10%, the bottom 10%, or what?")
Every time, my employer refuses to answer that question in a reliable way.
At this point, I just ask the question rhetorically.